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Tracking laptop thefts

Hi All,

Could you please tell me that is there any tool/utility which will give the information about when the machine has been disconnected from network.

Recently we lost a couple of laptops, we were not able to trace exact timings of these when it got disconnected from network. Suspect is on my co-workers, only authorised people can enter that room. I know there are lot of monitoring tools available, but difficult to monitor 100 laptops.

Any tool/utility which alerts or logs when the laptop disconnects from network, so that we can trace who excatly was there in that floor during that particular time.

or

is it possible to find out from AD through time stamps/KB tickets? if so how?

I agree that auditing tracks only when an attempt is made to DC or any other network resource, but if I don't access any of the network resource for a certain period and remove the network cable there will be no trace in audit logs...

Going for commercial products is good when it got stolen, but am looking at some proactive mechanism than reactive.

Why do you use laptops in the first place. By design they are portable devices intended to be connected and disconnected?

only authorised people can enter that room.

how is that enforced?

What about cleaners, maintenance personnel, security guards?

If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
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